Environmental Worker Iii - Full Time, Days (8Am-4Pm)

Long Island Community Hospital has served this richly diverse region as a patient-first community hospital for more than 60 years. As Long Island's only independent community hospital, we are 100% committed to becoming the community's healthcare provider of choice with our greatly enhanced services including the Knapp Cardiac Care Center, our highly-advanced heart disease diagnosis and treatment facility, our new modern surgical pavilion, our unique ER approach, and our high-touch services including women's imaging, sleep laboratory and orthopedics and more. These services are delivered with the highest level of compassion by our LI Community Hospital staff - Long Islanders with an unmistakable mix of courage and heart who care about the people right here in our community and whose sole purpose is to provide personalized comfort. For more information, go to licommunityhospital.org, and interact with us on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.

Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Environmental Worker III.

In this role, the successful candidate LICH serves a diverse population of patients, including those with special needs, at all stages of the life cycle. Environmental Service Worker III demonstrates the ability to deal effectively with various age groups of patients, visitors and staff in order to provide required duties. The unique physical and psychosocial needs of patients relative to age-specific requirements are considered in the provision of ESW III duties. Communication skills must be demonstrated through age-specific interactions that enhance customer satisfaction.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ability to operate floor buffing equipment.
• Ability to prioritize work assignments.
• Familiar with chemicals used in floor refinishing and their proper usage.
• Has knowledge of all chemicals and their proper usage
• Places equipment in proper storage area.
• Breaks down equipment at the end of shift.
• Ensures all equipment is safe and in proper working condition
• Is Familiar and demonstrates the ability to make decisions on what products needed to complete assignment on time.
• Keeps corners and baseboards clean in assigned areas.
• Operates automatic scrubbing machine.
• Is knowledgeable and demonstrates the proper procedure to shower scrub, strip and refinish floors.
• At end of shift communicates to ES Manager/Supervisors any assignments not completed
• Communicate with ES Manager/Supervisor.
• Ensures floor is free of debris.
• Communicate progress of assigned duties to ES Manager/Supervisor including completion of assignment.
• Obtains equipment and supplies in an efficient manner
• Dry mops/damp mops assigned areas.
• Notifies Environmental Supervisor of the equipment in need of repair.
• Is knowledgeable of equipment used for moving heavy objects and uses it safely.
• Consistently uses wet floor signs while floor refinishing in a safe manner.
• At beginning of shift, communicate with ES Manager/Supervisors regarding the day’s agenda and goals.

Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a High school diploma or equivalency in order to follow written work assignments & maintain records
Approximately one to three months experience to gain knowledge of cleaning procedures and power equipment use and maintenance.
Continued education through appropriate seminars, workshops, participation in departmental meetings, inservices & attention to Brookhavens memorandum.
Good interpersonal skills demonstrable in interactions with staff, administrators, patients and visitors.

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Long Island Community Hospital provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.

Long Island Community Hospital is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender dysphoria, national origin, age, religion, disability, military and veteran status, marital or parental status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision. We require applications to be completed online.
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